Example: The election of Hamas to power.
Mark
Well, you do have a choice, civilize yourself and your children, or die.
When America elects a ruthless SOB for President, in the years to come, he will unleash hell.
A more dehumanizing, stultifying program of social degradation than Islam has never been developed.
Our American innovators, Jim Jones and Charles Manson are infantile amateurs in comparison to Mohammed.
They reject reason, abjure friendship, mock honesty, and deny humanity to anyone who lacks the smell of their particular anthill.
They can only be saved by the Coulter Extreme Love Operation.
This one is more imortant to me:
Can Islam be imposed in "democracies?"
The problem with imposing democracy in Iraq is ... that we did not impose democracy. We're just politely waiting for Iraqis to develop it themselves.
I don't know if I'd call it "impossible." Turkey, after all, has a democracy, requiring a quick tune-up in the form of a military coup every so often. Not terribly stable, but they do have elections.
I believe Indonesia is democratic too, with some problems in the religious freedom department.
So we could conclude that Islam and democracy do not mix like gangbusters, but not that it is "impossible."
1)Get rid of all muslims.
2)Allow non-muslims to immigrate.
3)Democracy.
Iran, Turkey and hopefully Iraq will lead democratic movements through out the middle-east. Radicals have no chances if we succeed in spreading democracy in that corner of the world
Recognize the inalienable rights of individuals not collectives. Constuct a constitution, government, and court system to uphold those rights. Dismantle collectives when they are destructive to those rights.
Did you write this?
"In today's violence and terrorism stricken world, those involved in the desperate search for peace, should understand the basic Islamic principles and thoughts. Dar al-Islam (Islamic world), with whatsoever there-in, is the perfect abode of peace and prosperity, which is achievable only by the institution of the divine laws of the only true God, Allah. Islam is the complete and perfect code of life for governing perfectly all aspects of human life: social, moral, spiritual, religious, political, economic and everything else. Extra-Islamic doctrines, such as democracy, are inferior to the divine Islamic codes of governance. Outside interventions and democracy in Islamic countries are, thus, not necessary; neither do Muslims accept it.
On the other hand, Dar al-Harb, which does not hold such perfect code of governance, has scope of improvement. Hence, the imposition of democracy and freedom were quickly accepted in countries like Japan, Germany and Italy etc. The international policy-makers who might be at a fix over their repeated failures to achieve those goals in Muslim countries which are easily achievable elsewhere, must understand these fundamental distinctions between Islamic and the non-Islamic countries."
http://www.islam-watch.org/AlamgirHussain/ImposingDemocracy.htm
Germany and Japan willingly democratized only after being reduced to rubble. That tends to focus the democratic impulses
The people of Afghanistan and Iraq beg to differ.
Absolutely right. Those people don't want a democracy. They want a fascist theocracy.